What's been updated lately/ What's new:

• Added a link to my favourite poem, "High Flight". In the links section.

• Added a link about a bunch of psycho British guys who did horrible things to a poor little 486 :) Find it here

• Added a new link on the music page about Freddie Mercury.

• Added a new link to my friend dreal's poetry page, in the links section. Check it out!

• The music page has been rewritten, and now includes a more complete set of compositions that I've been working on.

• A long discussion of Australia's recent move towards net blocking and censorship has been added to the main page. It's scary that the government can destroy the (legally nonexistent) rights of its citizens so easily, especially in a presumably free country.

• Additional information regarding the use of the strtype.h header file has been added to the code page.

• There's a good C++ library reference on the links page now.
• strtype.h, an enhanced version of the ANSI C++ ctype.h has been added to the code page. It permits the checking and case conversion of characters within string variables as well as in conventional char variables.
• Now to start adding some features to string.h :)

• There's a new entry up on the main page, discussing independence.
• A short discussion of local IP resolution has been added to the ideas page.

• The original upload of the compiled version of rpage 1.00a3.web1 was broken. It's fixed now. The encoder is coming along really nicely.
• Both this page and the archive page have been standardized with the other pages on the site. New graphics! :-)
• I added some SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) related links to the links page.
• Macintosh programming and development links also added (I went on a Mac development information rampage the other night..)

• Another new program has been posted on the code page. This time it's a program that given a string, realistically generates typo combinations from it.

• As promised, there's now a code section on the site. There's currently one program there, but expect the selection to grow in days to come, as I have quite a few more programs that I'd like to share.
• I've made extensive updates to navigational links site-wide, including links back to the main page on every page, and I've added code and ideas links to the bottom nav-bars, reflecting new additions to the site.

• I added a new section to the site, called ideas. I've been having a lot of interesting ideas lately, which I don't have time to do as much as I'd like with, so I thought I'd make them available in case anyone would like to develop them further. The page can be found here.
• I also added two new Powerbook related links to the links page.
• Another mac link added to the links page, this time with a picture of a very rare clear SE. I'm in a nostalgic mood tonight :)

• I added a link to a really cool electronics resource. You can find it at the top of the links page. Well worth looking at.

• I've been writing a lot of code outside of work lately. Nothing incredibly significant, but interesting netherless, so I think I'll make a code section on here and make it more widely available. Look for it soon! I've been working simultaneously on 3 projects. The largest is an alphanumeric encodation system for 20 character numeric pagers, such as the Motorola Flex series. So far I've written the numerical decoder, and I'm in the midst of writing encoder code. The second project is a byproduct of a larger parser program that I'm writing. It indexes first occurrences of two-letter combinations on text file lines, which speeds up searches for text in large files where random access systems are inviable due to variable record length. The third program is another byproduct. Given an input string, it realistically creates typo combinations for the string, using a relatively rudimentary weighted network based on the positions of keys relative to one another on the qwerty keyboard. So far it supports letter mis-strikes on rows of letters, and mis-strikes between rows. I'm expanding it to include letter exclusion (wih - with), inversion, (wtih - with), and accidental addition (witjh - with). This program is going to be useful as part of the previously mentioned fault tolerant parser.

• There's a new entry up on the main page, which I composed between classes. Enjoy!

• I added a cool new link to the links page. It's very interesting, and well worth checking out. Go along and create some nodes (you'll see what I mean when you load it).
• Added a new (long) entry to the main page talking about the work and research I do. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me, and I'll be happy to answer them if I can.
• I'm not going to bother announcing archive additions anymore. In general, if there's a new entry up, you will be able to find the previous ones by going to http://lumiere.net/~fib/archive.html, or clicking on the [archive] link at the very bottom of the main page. It seemed somewhat redundant to announce them each time I put up a new entry.
• I added some convenience back links from the Think Different script page that I created some time ago. It makes navigation a little easier.

• I added a large number of new links to the links page. Lots of technically oriented sites, although the link describing predictions for military weapons in 2025 may be of wider general interest.
• Finally got around to writing a new entry on the main page, and archived the 4.5.1999 entry in the archive area.

• Added a link to the complete set of Apple's Think Different ad campaign, at the Think Different page.
• Oh, and I know that I've been slack in adding new content to the front page lately. School has been occupying more of my time than I'd like. I'm thinking of cataloging a portion of my bookshelf, as I noticed recently just how unusual and eclectic my book collection really is. An example: Widder's Advanced Calculus sits next to Everyday Magic, which sits next to Flux Linkages and Electromag.. wow, if I go any further I'll have written an entire entry. Expect it soon!

• Added a few new IRC channels to the about me section of the site.

• Added a new thought to the main page, and archived the old one.

• Added a new thought to the main page. I've been a little lazy about adding new content lately, but I'm hoping to change it every one to two days from now on.
• The thought from 2.16.1999 hasn't been archived yet. Technical problems on the IRIX box here are preventing me from doing so. It should be there soon though.

• Added a neat link to a list of dictionary sites. Very interesting to browse through.

• I transcribed the script of Apple's recent "Think Different" ad. It impressed me as much as the original 1984 ad, as it seems to legitimize a lot of the stuff I've done in my life that couldn't be classified as 'conventional' by any stretch of the imagination!

• Added a link to Textfiles in the links page. Textfiles is an archive of over 9000 text files that date from the 1970's and 1980's world. If you read my intro text on the main page, I think you'll grasp how excited I am to find a site of this nature. Well worth looking at.
• Added two additional links as well. The first is to the UCR Gamma Ray Telescope, a joint project between UCR and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. The second link points to the Gutenburg Project a fabulous collection of digitized classical literature and documents. It's a pretty well known site, but I thought I'd pass it along anyway.

• Added a new thought (ambience) to the main page. It's a little more random than some of my previous ones. I'm not really feeling in a very linear mood today though, so that'd probably explain it.
• Archived the old thought from 2.10.1999 in the archive page.
• Fixed some very minor formatting issues in the about me page.

• Made some minor formatting changes in the archive. It looks a little bit clearer now.
• Added an INTERCAL link to the links page

• Fixed some tags on the main page to make it a little more windows happy. Windows? Happy? :)
  
• Added a new thought/rant to the main page.
• Archived the thought from 1.28.1999 in the archive

• Added another channel to the list in about me page.
• Added a little to my music page.

• Added a link to this page from the main one.
• Added email address / update date to bottom of archive page.
• Created this page to track page changes.
• the main page was updated with a new thought.
• archived thought from 1.20.1999.
• art was updated with an additional piece of information on the ladder picture.
• links page had a broken tag on the PGP link fixed.
• about me page had a new section added regarding possible CS minor.

• Updated contact information page with new PGP key.
• links page had a new link to Google! a Stanford search engine added.

• Added an update to the projects page regarding recent modifications to the HeNe laser project.
• Updated the main page with a new thought.
• Created the thought archive, because the impermanence and immediacy metaphor I'd created to justify deleting each previous entry stopped seeming valid.
• archived thought from 1.05.1999.

• cataloged the contents of my backpack on the main page. This entry is now in the archive.